[openbeos] Re: Installing Haiku onto Partition; Missed Step?
- From: "Ben Allen" <ben.allen@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:50:44 -0600
Since the project is still in an alpha state, an install CD is a bit
premature as it would falsely give the impression that Haiku is complete and
ready to be installed and used by people other than devs and testers (plus,
the installer isn't complete IIRC). (see mailing list archives for numerous
other conversations on this topic)
I know what you are thinking though, and there is a way to install Haiku to
"real" hardware even if you don't have a Linux or BeOS partition on the
machine. I'd mess it up if I tried to explain it myself, so I'll defer to
kvdman's description of the process on the Haiku forums :
http://haiku-os.org/community/forum/the_easy_way_to_install_haiku
Essentially, all you'll need is a BeOS Max install CD, a Haiku image on your
hard disk, and an empty partition. Also, be aware that if the BeOS Max CD
has problems booting on your hardware, you may need to make a boot floppy,
which can most easily be done here :
http://mmadia.zelect.org/files/boot_archive/
HTH,
Ben
On 2/4/07, Shaka <shaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For now, couldn't we create an install CD like all these BeOS variants
use (BeOS Max, Wind etc...)?
On Feb 4, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Mat Hounsell wrote:
> Actually this is a grub issue that might need documenting.
>
> Grub must be told not to look at the partition as it doesn't
> understand BeFS.
>
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>
> NOT root (hd0,0)
>
>
> Now I just need to workout why it hangs.
>
>
> Haiku OS - Free, Open, and Fantastic: http://haiku-os.org/
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mat Hounsell <mat_geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Open BeOS <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, 29 January, 2007 9:40:06 AM
> Subject: Installing Haiku onto Partition; Missed Step?
>
> Yesterday...
>
> The wiki is gone and I couldn't find the install instructions and
> google/s spider has yet to crawl the new site.
>
> Am I missing something in the steps below?
>
> Downloaded a Haiku Image from haikuhost 19995.
> Decompressed it.
> Formatted the target partition
> mkbfs /dev/disk/scsi/0/0/0/0_6 openbeos
> Mounted it.
> Made it bootable
> makebootable /openbeos
> Mounted the image
> mountimage ~/haiku.image
> Copied the files on to the new partition.
> cp -R /Haiku/* /openbeos
> Reboot
>
> It used to work.
>
> Grub complains about error 12 "an error occurred that isn't defined by
> any other error.".
> It will boot Zeta with the same config text.
>
> Haiku OS - Free, Open, and Fantastic: http://haiku-os.org/
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